Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
1996. A historic map-sheet match is not published yet. The record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary.
From the record
“The former Piqua High School, built in 1914, is an historic building located at 316 North College Street in Piqua, Ohio. Also known as Piqua Central High School, it was designed by Howard and Merriam in the Classical Revival style.”
Wikipedia article Old Piqua High School, CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 36 National Register listings in Miami County · listed in 1996 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.96000927- the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 331 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Piqua High School between 1835 and
1973: 300 Animalia, 16 Plantae, 13 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A. Gaufin, A. R. Gaufin, A.R. Gaufin and others. Each is a
physical object with a catalogue
number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was
collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be
concluded from a species being absent.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
5 workings within 5 miles of Piqua High School: 3 producers, 2 past producers.
3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Piqua, the town this property stands in, in 46 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 27 thunderstorm wind, 12 hail, 2 tornado, 2 flash flood.
The reports record 1 death and 1 injury. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office
filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date
opens the federal record of that event.
Many trees and power lines were blown down across the county. In Piqua alone, at least 130 trees were knocked down, 12 homes damaged severely, and 3 vehicles were nearly destroyed.
Two 24 inch diameter trees were downed at the intersection of US Route 36 and Casstown Road. A few large tree limbs were downed along Miami-Shelby County Road.
No historic map-sheet match is published
for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs
a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary.
Browse the county's mapped places while that work is
pending.
From the nomination file
7,043 words on record
When this property was proposed for the
National Register, someone wrote the case for it: what the building is,
and why it matters. That document is a federal record in the public domain.
It is quoted below word for word, never summarised. The text was read off the scanned case file by machine, so the
occasional stray character is the recogniser's and the 1970s
typewriter's.
Statement of significance
Areas of Significance (Mark "x" in one or more boxes for the criteria qualifying the property (Enter categories from instructions) for National Register listing.) X A Property is associated with events that have made a significant contribution to the broad patterns of our history. TIB Property is associated with the lives of persons significantin our past. IX C Property embodies the distinctive characteristics of a type, period, or method of construction or represents the work of a master, or possesses high artistic values, or represents a significant and distinguishable entity whose components lack Period of Significance individual distinction. [TD Property has yielded, or is likely to yield, information important in prehistory or history.
(Mark "x" in all the boxes that apply.) I1A owned by a religious institution or used for Significant Person 1: B removed from its original location. (Complete if Criterion B is marked above) LJ C a birthplace or grave. I iD a cemetery. - E a reconstructed building, object, or structure. F a commemorative property. G less than 50 years of age or achieved significance within the past 50 years. Harvard and Merriam, Columbus, Ohio Narrative Statement of Significance (Explain the significance of the property on one or more continuation sheets.) 9.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 96000927, 44 pages, held by the National Archives in Record
Group 79. See the
catalogue record.
Listed places nearby
6 within 8 miles
Other National Register properties close
enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both
positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties
to their map sheets.
Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.
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